#im so angry and frustrated

[doctorwillsolace]

my galaxy phone updated and they completely removed Google assistant and replaced it with Gemini AI and in doing so they have completely (seemingly) removed the ability for me to quickly dictate to my phone to set a timer for me. Which was my most used feature on my phone.

[prettygirlgerard]

another one of those days where I watch cops in riot gear arrest and brutalize my old classmates in texas and watch denver send the entire police department to intimidate the gaza solidarity encampment at the auraria campus and arrest students for protesting genocide. I don’t know how you live with yourself or sleep at night ignoring what’s happening in palestine. you have to be soulless to be a cop that’s for sure. ugh

[catdotwav]

I think a good takeaway here's that you can read as much and cite as many sources and speak on all the political topics you want but if you can't answer the basic question of "should we care that people are dying" without some variation of "it's complicated" that's what's gonna show how much merit your perspective on anything has. Same goes for how much that bothers you.

[gothcsz]

first i'm called a slur, then i'm ganged up on for defending myself, and now i'm being accused of using ai to write my fics? awesome. great. it's obvious that there are some individuals that want me out of this fandom and while i usually like to pride myself in having tough skin—i genuinely don't think i want to be here anymore. lol.

congrats anons, you did it! you made me feel like shit! i know you're probably celebrating on your end of the screen that you're so close to running off another black writer from this fandom so congratu-fucking-lations. idk what exactly the prize is so enjoy your dbf fics and your shitty spanish and fetishized content of a brown latino immigrant man.

and i can already see it now: people accusing me of throwing a temper tantrum or trying to get sympathy by writing this post but honestly what the fuck ever. i know who i am, my truths, and the people who really know me recognize how absurd all of this is because it's BLATANTLY clear that this witch hunt you motherfuckers are starting is rooted in racism solely because i'm one of the few out and proud black writers in this cursed fandom. you can sit there and lie and say that's not the reason why but it is and the same way y'all are saying karma is gonna circle back on me and my mutuals—it's also going to catch up to you and your heinous spirits.

i might take a day or two to sit with this and truly evaluate if sticking around is worth it but man, from the bottom of my heart: FUCK Y'ALL

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

Pony and Soda are both angry criers. Soda doesn't mind so much. He's the gangs bawl baby. And truly? he doesn't even mind that title anymore. none of them say it like it's a bad thing. he gets mad, he starts crying he moves on n keeps it going. but Pony? he HATES it. he KNOWS what he wants to say. he KNOWS why he's angry. and he IS. he's not sad or mixed up he's just FRUSTRATED and for whatever stupid reason it makes him cry and it pisses him off to no end.

[consultingfujoshi]

everyone else is giving their take on this so I feel as if I should too. I am angry about burt and irving now having two almost-kisses and them still finding a reason for them to never close that gap. like, yea it makes narrative sense that neither of those scenes contained a kiss, it's compelling even, if I view it objectively I actually love that because I care deeply about these characters and want them to be written realistically and with nuance.

but I am not gonna sit here and pretend that I'm fine with how this compares to the straight couples that have had so much more this season. if burt and irving's story existed in a bubble where markhelly and all the rest didn't serve as points of comparison I don't think I'd be half as upset at the way this ended. I'd be able to appreciate the impact of their being unable to kiss TWICE now in different universes because of forces outside of their control without looking across at every. single. other. couple. who are all straight. and going. why do they get that and we don't. why is it only the gay couple that have to be written "realistically" where they're still not ready to kiss. why can allowances and indulgences be made for dramatic effect for EVERYONE except them. I don't know if it's intentional homophobia, or queerbait, or if they're really just that squeamish about the idea of two old men kissing each other, but the double standard is there no matter the motivation behind it. and when you combine that with irving's innie being effectively killed off four episodes into the second season, and now his outie potentially written out of the show too, all I'm saying is it becomes hard to give them the benefit of the doubt.

we're all aware john turturro may not return for another season and that's why they felt the need to wrap up irving's two storylines somehow so they weren't left on a loose end should he decide not to come back, and I get that, and I'm glad there was some sense of finality to it, but then why not allow us just this one thing. just one moment of indulgence. because it might actually be our, and their, last chance. would it have killed them to just let them kiss this one time if there was a chance we'd never see them again, a chance they'd never see each other again. the truth is, no, it wouldn't have been hard at all. but they still made the decision to withhold that. because they can't allow us or them even the most basic kindness whilst handing the straight couples everything on a silver platter.

I'm not gonna get into the pacing issues of their relationship this season, how we jumped from them shyly asking each other out on another date to burt carrying out the hit on irving, how there feels like a missing scene in between those two events, because that relates to a wider problem with the structure of the show itself that is beyond the scope of this criticism. but i think it's telling that rather than giving us that extra time with them, they took a whole episode away from our main cast where even cobel got to kiss a one off male character that we will never hear from or see of again, and the supposed flagship romance of season 1 can't even get that. at what point am I allowed to call that thing in the corner that looks, acts, and talks like a duck a fucking duck?

if it sounds like I'm bitter, and jealous, it's because I am. because whether or not the double standard is intentional or not, it's still there. and I really did think a show that was able to present such special, compelling, meaningful queer characters would be a little more self aware about the message they're sending. and it fucking sucks that this has become just another show where I have to swallow my frustration and accept that they're not writing this for me. I and my fellow queer audience will never be the priority. even now we are still begging for scraps

[wackywatchdotcom]

imo jax has no clue that hes miserable. like hes putting on a face for sure but i dont think he actually has the emotional awareness to know WHY hes doing that. he just wants to look cool and masculine and thats as far as he thinks on it. theres more to it but he doesnt know that. being sad isnt cool so he wouldnt even entertain the idea that hes secretly sad

[bbnibini]

I find it so painfully heartbreaking that Solomon just...laughs off all the derision, the name-calling, and possibly even did "evil" things on purpose because it's expected of him at this point. (He had not always been like this as Thirteen pointed out before). There was a time when he was "innocent". When his soul sparkled. When it resembled the kind of soul everyone in these god forsaken (pun intended with spite) three realms seemed to associate with the ever loved MC. He's just...worryingly carefree. And because he's like that, he feels even more of a tragic character to me.

Sometimes it even seems that he himself would seemingly make up excuses on why he's hated. Oh, it's because I'm a sorcerer this. I might have won a war against Devildom single-handedly this. I have forgotten. But maybe, I did something bad, that. Hon, you were doing that to SURVIVE. You don't have to be a faultless person to deserve compassion. You don't have to be MC to deserve to be loved.

[dreamsy990]

hi i wanted to draw my own au so have a snippet of scene i rewrote like 12 times and will likely rewrite again

[hvackisser]

Save me Lazytown....Lazytown save me

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Hey hi hello to any fellow Brits reading this.

You probably know we have a general election coming up, which by the way, make sure you're registered to vote and have the qualifying photo ID.

And hey maybe you're a fence-sitter who doesn't want to vote for Labour for whatever reason.

Well, this post is giving you a reason to vote for Labour (or any party other than Tory if the candidate actually has a chance to win the seat).

You might have noticed that a lot of local and city councils have either gone bankrupt recently or are teetering on the edge, and that officially, it's the councils themselves that have been blamed, and uh yeah, that's horseshit.

The majority of a local council's funding comes from core grants given out by Westminster.

There's actually a limit on funding that local councils can raise via taxes, and like a whole lot of issues in the UK, that comes down to Margaret fucking Thatcher. It's also thanks to her that local councils don't have as much power over the local area as you'd ideally want them to.

(That's been eased a little since, but if a local council ain't got the money, they can't exercise that power.)

Suffice to say, local councils are very much dependent on funding from the central government.

And as you might imagine, 14 years of Tory government has just made it worse. From 2010 to 2020, that funding was cut by 40%.

Wanna know why hundreds of libraries have closed down? Or why public services like bin collections are almost entirely ran by corporations? Or why bin collections are now once a fortnight rather than once a week? Or why council houses haven't been built? Or why public toilets are being closed? Or why you have to Tokyo Drift on the drive to work because it's been 2 years and no one's done shit about that goddamn pothole? Or why parks seem to now be maintained by Big Foot and by the way Big Foot has also declared bankruptcy? Or why local arts have had their budget of 17 paperclips and a whistle reduced down to 10 paperclips and no whistle? Or why your local museum is effectively a mausoleum?

It is all down to this.

Your local council runs on a shoestring budget because Tory rule has deprived local councils of the funding that they need.

If the Tories win in July, this problem is just gonna get worse and worse and worse.

More councils are going to go bankrupt; more public services are going to be cut or underfunded; more vulnerable kids are going to fall through the cracks; more local services will be privatised; more pressing issues will be ignored because there's no money left over to fix it.

You might not like the current Labour party, but hi hello welcome to harm reduction politics. Maybe a Labour government won't fix this, but another 5 years of Tory rule is going to break this country.

So for god's sake, get over yourself and your leftist purity bullshit, and just fucking vote for Labour as a vote against the Tories.

[Information for this post comes from this video by Tom Nicholas]

[curioscurio]

what if I told you johnlock was real in 2024

[jazzyblusnowflake]

Posted this at a bad time where most people are asleep so here it is again-

GIVE ME DOODLE REQUESTS OR ILL FUCKING EAT YOUR LIVER AND KNEECAPS IN YOUR SLEEP-

thankyouuuuu, love yall lots (*o▽<)/★*☆♪♡~<3

[milfygerard]

my advice to ppl who feel angry or doomer-y when frank iero opens his big fat mouth without thinking to think back and consider: do you trust gerard ways artistic integrity and instincts for mcr? Bc thats why i pretty much never react to the band being quiet or weird announcements or whatever. Gerard takes the integrity of the art and performance of mcr very seriously, if they were in it for the money they never would have broken up mcr at all, they wouldn't've bothered with the swarm tour, and they wouldnt have made the TBP tour as unmarketable and confusing to the general public as they could get away with. To be blunt, if this was some artless sellout we would have had an album by now and it would have been good if not disappointing and derivative. Gerard is very obsessive over the integrity and honesty of the art they create sometimes to a detrimental and obsessive degree, and does not take something like My Chemical Romance lightly or cynically.

ALSO we wouldnt have gotten two high quality high concept clearly expensive highly enigmatic promotional videos with bizarre extremely hostile fascist imagery along with promotional imagery and posters that don't even have the bands acronym on them in a readable text. TBP tour is clearly going to not just be Something but is going to be Something Very Big.

[russilton]

Guys some of you have got to process grief better— you can’t be watching Lewis clearly explain how leaving Merc makes him emotional because it’s his family, and he’s been processing that sadness all year, and think he’s saying they’re making him sad on purpose

People get sad when they leave things, people get sad and struggle moving on even when they know it’s the right choice. People leave things they love for new adventures all the time and they can still feel sad.

Feeling sad isn’t an emotion to be banished, sometimes it’s an honour to have loved something so much it made you sad. Grief is the persistence of love

[n3on-graveston3s-calling]

Well.

Time to return to my roots & spend hours on tumblr I guess.